Perl Developer (onsite), London

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Posted: May 30, 2018

Job title: Perl Developer

Company name: NP Group (acting on behalf of customer)

Location: London

Pay rate: £470pd

Terms of employment: Independent contractor (hourly)

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Our customer a global brand are looking to hire a number of Perl Developers
on daily rate contract to complete at least a years worth of work relating
to their back end web systems. You will be part of a team helping to
migrate to new systems using Microservices architecture hosted on AWS. 

The job description is as follows;

Joining an Agile team, this is an
opportunity to establish a close relationship with our product owners and
users and make a real difference in a fast-paced online retail environment.
We deliver value to our business every release, meaning that you will
immediately be able to contribute and make a positive impact.

Our approach
to technology is to use the right tool for the job and, through TDD and
CI/CD, to build high-quality solutions that are built with a view to
maintenance.

To build on our success, we are looking for smart,
conscientious software developers who want to work in a friendly, engaging
environment and take our platform and products forward. In return, you will
be exposed to the latest technologies, frameworks & methodologies in
application development.

The Role

Build high-quality applications and
HTTP based services
Work closely with both technical and non-technical
members in the team
Develop a good understanding of business requirements
and write technical specifications
Ensure that work is well-planned,
estimated, implemented, tested, and documented
Identify and help plan
improvements to systems
Participate in code review and mentoring processes
Keep up with industry trends and experiment with new tools, technologies &
development methods with a view to adopting best practices that fit the
business
Monitor and support production systems

Desired skills:
Required Skills & Experience

Server-side development in Perl
CPAN and
common frameworks: Catalyst; DBIx::Class; Plack; TT; Moose
Client-side
development in JavaScript
SQL/RDBMS (we use PostgreSQL and MySQL)
Version
control systems (we use git)
Able to investigate & trouble-shoot technical
issues
Able to rapidly and effectively context-switch
Linux OS familiarity

Desirable Skills & Experience

Experience of any of the following will be
useful but training will be provided to the right candidate.

Able to
develop web-based user interfaces (HTML, CSS) & APIs (JSON & XML)
Server-side development in JavaScript (Node.js)
Knowledge of NPM libraries
and frameworks, including test frameworks
Search Technology (we use Elastic
search)
RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon SQS
Puppet or similar configuration
management solutions
Experience building and testing high-availability
applications
Agile development methodologies and practices (Scrum, Kanban,
TDD)
Implementing continuous delivery (ideally using Jenkins and OpenStack)

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/21298#contact